The talented Fat Old Guys of Chelmsford scored only 58 seconds into the game and led by two goals after one period before skating to a convincing 5-1 Budweiser Division victory over Compass Tuesday night at Fitchburg State University's Wallace Civic Center on the opening night of the 37th annual Bud Light Olde Knights Oldtimers Tournament.

"Slow start," said fill-in Compass goalie Bill Christie, who took over the goaltending duties from J.J. Arsenault. "We spotted them three goals and we just didn't have enough to catch up. It wasn't really a strong offensive showing tonight.

FOG certainly stormed the Gaetz Arena ice and led 2-0 only 3:44 into the opening period.

John Doherty found an opening past Christie 58 seconds in, and netted his second on the evening at 3:44 with a nifty tip-in, assisted by Tom Ervin and Bud Mercuro.

"The first two, a couple of nice tips," said Christie, a Fitchburg resident and 1986 graduate of Monty Tech. "I would have liked to play them a little bit differently."

Compass responded, however.

Marty Castles made a nice juke move on FOG goalie Tim Donovan before beating the netminder glove side at 4:50. Mark Leger and Bob Montolio assisted on Compass' lone goal of the evening.

Castles had a chance to net the equalizer, but his breakaway was stoned by Donovan with 5:55 left.

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"We have a couple of guys who are really snipers, but we just didn't get any real good opportunities down there because their goalie played well," Christie said. "He pretty much controlled all the rebounds that he needed to and didn't give up many second chances down there."

Scott Millin scored on a penalty shot at 9:31, giving FOG a 3-1 lead after the first period.

FOG's lead grew to 4-1 early in the second period. Tom Ervin did the honors with a top-shelf tally only 57 seconds into the period.

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